2011/11/30 Rick M
Justin,
You are right, I have been talking to him. He is not listening though, as he is dead set on racing in the AMA. Okay, fine. I have asked him how long his career will be and what he will do when the last checkered flag is thrown. Let’s do an inventory………..NO college, lot’s of crashes and hopefully none that have lasting effects, like my two broken backs. So…….what does that leave him with? I was never very good at math, a full year in calculus in college was as far as I got, but I think we can give him a score of somewhere close to zero, or maybe even just zero. Yep, I think that’s right. No derivations to worry about…….just a big fat zero.
You are right, I have been talking to him. He is not listening though, as he is dead set on racing in the AMA. Okay, fine. I have asked him how long his career will be and what he will do when the last checkered flag is thrown. Let’s do an inventory………..NO college, lot’s of crashes and hopefully none that have lasting effects, like my two broken backs. So…….what does that leave him with? I was never very good at math, a full year in calculus in college was as far as I got, but I think we can give him a score of somewhere close to zero, or maybe even just zero. Yep, I think that’s right. No derivations to worry about…….just a big fat zero.
SO, to continue, what if he hurts himself and is unable to join the military and become either a pilot or a SEAL? Now what? Work in a motorcycle shop? Wendy’s and Tastee Freeze always need people I guess.
I am trying to mentor Joe, it is an obligation I have to him. I point out that he can race motorcycles while on active duty as I did. When you are young, sometimes you can’t see far enough ahead. Joe is sharp and can think things through, but he is just not seeing his future clearly right now. It concerns me.
Rick
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my thoughts:
BOXER RIDDICK BOWE
“The champ is here!” Darren Antola, who set up the autograph session, called out, like a carnival barker. “He beat Evander Holyfield two out of three times!”
Bowe, now 40 years old, [and reportedly punch drunk] has not thought about the possibility of completing his education and getting a trade school certificate or even a college degree. This sad man cannot think beyond boxing:
“What would I do without boxing? That’s the question, isn’t it?” he asked during a quiet moment under the canopy where he sat. He searched for the answer inside his head, which his own lawyers once argued was damaged from all the blows it absorbed.“Boxing’s all I know,” he said finally. “At 40, what else am I going to do?”
Of course he did once join the Marine Corps Reserves but he quit a few days later. This is a man who is directionless and pitiful. I recall when he was married. His wife had left him and moved to North Carolina. He went there and tried to force her and his five children back home to Maryland. He ended up spending 18 months in jail.
Well now he is remarried and he is a sad case. The classic case of the broken, worn out, punch drunk former boxer who—in the end, has no money, no true hope and no plans.
… sharing many of the attributes of the gods. Calypso received Ulysses hospitably, entertained him magnificently, became enamoured of him, and wished to retain him for ever, conferring on him immortality. But be persisted in his resolution to return to his country and his wife and son.
SCYLLA
and remember that she was once a beautiful maiden and was changed into a snaky monster by Circe. She dwelt in a cave high up on the cliff, from whence she was accustomed to thrust forth her long necks (for she had six heads), and in each of her mouths seize one of the crew of every vessel passing within reach.
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